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48 this as it will, the principles of Arius begin to revive, not only in England but in Holland and Poland. The celebrated sir Isaac Newton honour'd this opinion so far as to countenance it. This philosopher thought that the Unitarians argued more mathematically than we do. But the most sanguine stickler for Arianism is the illustrious Dr. Clark. This man is rigidly virtuous, and of a mild disposition; is more fond of his tenets than desirous of propagating them; and absorb'd so entirely in problems and calculations, that he is a mere reasoning machine. he who wrote a book which is much esteem'd and little understood, on the existence of God; and another more intelligible, but pretty much contemned, on the truth of Christian religion.

never engag'd in scholastic disputes, which our friend calls venerable trifles. He only publish'd a work containing all the testimomes of the primitive ages, for and against the Unitarians, and leaves to the reader the counting of the voices, and the liberty of forming a 3